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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02506751
Date of registration: 12/07/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
Public title: Open-label Study of Liothyronine in MS
Scientific title: A Phase 1b, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of the Putative Remyelinating Agent, Liothyronine, in Individuals With MS
Date of first enrolment: July 2015
Target sample size: 20
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02506751
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Scott Newsome, DO
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Johns Hopkins University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Must meet 2010 McDonald criteria for clinically definite MS

- Must be euthyroid

- Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) 3.0-7.5

- Patients may be on MS immunomodulating therapies or immunosuppressant therapies during
the study

Exclusion Criteria:

- Known thyroid disease (past or current)

- Currently on thyroid replacement therapy

- Steroid use within a month of screening

- History of coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, or other clinically
significant cardiac disease

- History of adrenal insufficiency

- Ongoing renal and/or liver disease

- Ongoing severe depression and/or anxiety

- Use of carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, warfarin, antacids, cholestyramine,
colestipol, sucralfate, and rifampin

- Known contraindication to using beta-blocker medications

- History of alcohol or substance abuse in the past 6 months

- Pregnant or nursing

- If the investigator feels that participation in this study is not in the best interest
of the subject



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 58 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting
Multiple Sclerosis, Secondary Progressive
Multiple Sclerosis, Primary Progressive
Intervention(s)
Drug: liothyronine
Primary Outcome(s)
The incidence rate of adverse events [Time Frame: 26 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
IRB00061965
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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